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(2008) |
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"an intelligent, moving depiction of a world gone to hell, dripping with the melancholy of a 'hero' driven by a yearning that he is incapable any longer of understanding."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"As beautiful as anything the animation house has yet produced (and their first feature in 3D), it is at times meandering and not a little mawkish, but its vivid primary colours conceal a great deal of shaded nuance."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"throws up so many Freudian slips, mixed metaphors and free-associative leaps that in the end the main characters' (and our own) grip on reality comes unstuck, and the unfolding apocalypse takes on a positively Saussurean aspect."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"An uncategorisable exploration of the contradictions to be found in Franco-African identity... where a whole history of crime, poverty and colonial exploitation are portrayed through mythology as a clash of the totems."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"It is a film very much about its own audience, confronting us all with the insatiable sadism and voyeurism of those who seek to dispel their own innermost fears vicariously."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"Glasson's feature debut boasts both writing and performances of great subtlety, although the effect is somewhat undermined by the odd moment of sensationalist grotesquery (fish-fellating, eye-gouging, flashbacks to patricide, etc.)."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"disinter[s] the kind of gleefully big-and-bloody horror comedy showcased by films like The Evil Dead (1981) and Braindead (1992)."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"a real treat - funny and with just enough tricksiness to make its penny-dreadful gothic seem fresh as well."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"slyly inverts all manner of gender conventions by having its narrative orientation gradually shift from a rather unengaging, anodyne hero to an altogether more dynamic and self-reliant heroine (the girl of the title)"
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"Triangle leaves you feeling no less lost, confused and full of despair than its heroine Jess (Melissa George) as she struggles, seemingly in vain, against the darker aspects of her own nature."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"A blistering tale of group psychosis and Darwinist brutality... The results, though a little stagey, are raw, confronting, and unremittingly grim. It is Boll at his best."
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Little White Lies |
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(2006) |
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"Lee's film is lurid, tacky, anarchic, fast and funny -- even if it suffers from an episodic structure that merely introduces ensemble characters without giving them much to do or experience."
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Little White Lies |
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It's sex, lies and videotape in a privileged high school as Antonio Campos casts a cold eye over the adolescent state of postmodernity."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"In Özgür Yildirim's vibrant thriller, the exigencies of genre clash with the realities of Germany's urban multiculturalism - but a bland central performance, and a paucity of surprises, hinder its rise to the top of the drug-movie hierarchy."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"Todd Graff’s coming-of-age musical comedy may hardly be original, but the secret is all in the mix: sweet enough to please the kids, while acerbically downbeat enough to keep the attention of any accompanying adults."
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Little White Lies |
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(1993) |
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"this dark satire-cum-parable (cling)wraps itself in a quirkily beautiful aesthetic that keeps us watching even when the material is at its most repellent or alarming."
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Little White Lies |
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(2004) |
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"a touching, if uncomfortable, depiction of conservative Korean society as the danger from which misfits sometimes need protection (rather than the other way round)."
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Little White Lies |
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(1997) |
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"all the Tarantino-esque chaos of plot and subplot undercuts itself with such determined bathos that the viewer is more alienated than engaged, and Song's bag of stylistic tics has a similar effect"
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Little White Lies |
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(2008) |
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"[Perelman] over-explains everything at the end with a montage of repeated scenes that ensures you never need see this film more than once."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"Unfortunately, no matter how clever-clever the all-new screenplay might (occasionally) be at acknowledging the faults of the original, this does not make them magically go away."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"immaculately composed tracking shots... unfold at their own deliberate pace to reveal the meandering paths travelled by a fragile humanity."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"unravelling the film's evolving ambiguities is like trying to define the sound of one hand clapping."
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Bigelow's gripping yet subtle study in the psychology of war is set to the urgent rhythms of a ticking bomb, exploding the myth of the maverick hero."
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Channel 4 Film |
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"Often there is a concept that positively zings, but then has little follow-through."
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"In showing a family's self-destructive intransigence (or is it self-preserving cohesion?), Ursula Meier unravels a modern fable in which the forces of conservatism and change pass each other by."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Despite having the bleakest of themes, this charming absurdist treat will put a Tati-esque skip in your step."
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Channel 4 Film |
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Despite some fine performances and pretty scenery, The Proposal is predictable yet incredible, and devoid of any consistent tone. Better call off that wedding."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2007) |
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"combin[es] murderous thrills with something altogether more otherworldly."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"A beautiful battery of depraved images and irrational associations, Lars Von Trier's two-handed essay in horror is as distracting and deadening as depression itself."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3/5 |
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"Performances are intercut with file footage, home videos and family photos, creating a mannered film language that, like the music it documents, links the present to the past in a series of echoes."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"It is an artful blend of hardman viciousness and surreal camp, and while viewers will certainly feel the full force of the film's impact, they will also, like Bronson's bewildered wardens, never be quite sure what has hit them."
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Little White Lies |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Like Dillinger, the film lives fast, only to die young."
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Little White Lies |
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(2007) |
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"as well as offering fascinating insights into the working practise, philosophy and idiosyncrasy of Missoula, Montana's most famous Eagle Scout, LYNCH (one) is a work of strange and elliptical beauty in itself."
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Eye for Film |
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(2002) |
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"Lynch is referencing that most all-American of televisual genres, the sit-com, to show not only his nation's nightmarish underside of drooling, pugnacious idiocy, but also perhaps his own."
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Eye for Film |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Despite the novelty of its 3D visuals and lost world setting, Dawn Of The Dinosaurs pushes the Ice Age franchise ever closer to extinction."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"for all the probing beauty of Kiarostami's close-ups, Shirin depends entirely on a concept better suited to a shorter duration. By the 20-minute mark, the viewer has got it - and from there on in, the film is just a pretty face (or several)."
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Little White Lies |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Paddy Breathnach's second horror outing plays much like his first, mixing genres and influences into a heady cocktail - although this time around the flavours may no longer satisfy the jaded palate."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2005) |
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"one of the most elegant, soothing and thoughtful animes in years. To see it is to take a long, relaxed journey into places unknown, rich and strange."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"There may be no ghosts, but the Sasakis' house is as haunted as anything that Kurosawa has yet put on film."
[dvd review] |
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"There is nothing - nothing - in Bay's film that can be taken seriously - although that becomes something of a problem in itself, given Bay's relentless exploitation of imagery from 9/11 and the Second Gulf War..."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"in its way [the film] out-Hanekes Haneke (without feeling like a lecture), by confronting us in the end with what we expected (and possibly also desired) all along from this kind of movie."
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musicOMH.com |
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(2008) |
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"a sombre film that never shows more than it needs to, and never allows its more outrageous or shocking moments to descend into sadistic spectacle or farce."
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Eye for Film |
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(2001) |
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"is the film's tendency to indulge in inappropriate sentiment (typified by Son Mu-hyeon's excruciatingly mawkish soundtrack)... just satirising Korea's long, paradox-riddled love affair with violence?"
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Little White Lies |
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(1968) |
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"Borowczyk documents the strange hierarchies and rituals of an island of the imagination... and the result is a sort of absurdist anthropological allegory of blinkered outlooks, frustrated dreams and recurring tyrannies."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"Its beauty and sadness are simply overwhelming. Anglo-Irish cinema gets a new, fully-formed identity."
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Little White Lies |
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"It is more conventionally melodramatic than its realist postures might at first suggest, but in the end Frozen River is kept from sinking into icy oblivion by the brittle strength of its central performances."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A bold experiment or a crashing bore? Clay's muted hybrid is a bit of both, in unequal measure."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"One claustrophobic location, two men, a relationship that shifts with the flood tide... and a film that far exceeds the limitations imposed by its low budget and small scale."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Naturalistic performances, even-handed characterisation and the utter eschewal of genre cliches ensure that this tale of a stranger in a strange land hits home."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"feels more like a stopgap than a return to the franchise's past form... relentlessly (and uninspiringly) efficient - like a sleek new model Terminator."
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Eye for Film |
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